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TIL that a group of Oregon lawmakers rickrolled the state legislature in 2011. Each person incorporated one line into their speech.

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x6erw TIL a Scottish widower seeking female companionship set 2,000 bottled messages adrift, but ceased the practice in response to public complaints and an investigation by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency.
xVX8b TIL there is a name for such common errors as writing "tow the line" instead of "toe the line." The word eggcorn was coined when a linguist noted a woman who used that word instead of "acorn" and realized there was no word for the general phenomenon.
6V1J TIL Otto von Bismarck predicted World War I twenty years before it happend, and Germany’s downfall and defeat, almost to the month
VMgLQ TIL that, back in 1979, a cryonics company which promised to freeze and preserve your brain for later revival went bust, and all the bodies thawed out.
awD9y TIL that the way an individual types on a keyboard is unique to each person. So much so that it can be used as a biometric, just like a fingerprint.